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UNINA9910823042403321 |
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Autore |
Luke Kang Kwong |
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Titolo |
Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation / / Kang Kwong Luke |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-17426-X |
9786613174260 |
90-272-8332-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iv, 329 pages) |
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Collana |
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Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 9 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cantonese dialects - Particles |
Chinese language - Dialects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-324) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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UTTERANCE PARTICLES IN CANTONESE CONVERSATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Transcriptionand Glossing Conventions; Romanization Conventions; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION : UTTERANCE PARTICLES IN CANTONESE; CHAPTER 2. CONVERSATION AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 3. The Establishment of Common Ground in Conversation: the Utterance Particle LA; CHAPTER 4. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ENDINGS IN CONVERSATION: THE UTTERANCE PARTICLE LO; CHAPTER 5. EXPECTATION AND NOTEWORTHINESS: THE UTTERANCE PARTICLE WO |
CHAPTER 6. UTTERANCE PARTICLES AS CONVERSATIONAL OBJECTS CHAPTER 7. TOWARDS A SOCIALLY CONSTITUTED LINGUISTICS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUBJECT INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They are notorious for being extremely resistant to conventional syntactic and semantic analysis. The aim of this book is to seek a better understanding of utterance particles by concentrating |
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